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Jeroen Diederen

Jeroen Diederen

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As you are aware of, mesa dropped support for the old radeon cards. I now learned that dri support for those old cards is supported in mesa-amber. A user in my forum wanted help to build it for PowerPC. I did it and uploaded the tarball with the packages (except debug symbols) to my server. It could be useful for you Debian users here.
 
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Jeroen Diederen said:
As you are aware of, mesa dropped support for the old radeon cards. I now learned that dri support for those old cards is supported in mesa-amber. A user in my forum wanted help to build it for PowerPC. I did it and uploaded the tarball with the packages (except debug symbols) to my server. It could be useful for you Debian users here.
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This "mesa-amber" would work on iMac g3 with debian? let me know please. 🙂
and another question, where is your "server"? thanks in advance!
 
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Home — The Mesa 3D Graphics Library

mesa3d.org mesa3d.org

Legacy drivers​

Note​

Several drivers have been removed from the main branch, and now live on in the Amberbranch where they are community maintained and only receive critical fixes.

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mesa-amber project:

Amber Branch — The Mesa 3D Graphics Library latest documentation

docs.mesa3d.org docs.mesa3d.org

After Mesa 21.3, all non-Gallium DRI drivers were removed from the Mesa source-tree. These drivers are still being maintained to some degree, but only on the amber branch, and only for critical fixes.

These drivers include:
  • Radeon
  • r200
  • i915
  • i965
  • Nouveau (the DRI driver for NV04-NV20)
 
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Hey there @Jeroen Diederen , enjoying MintPPC64 on my Power Mac G5! Install worked like a charm and it's a joy to have a solid Debian install with the Mint goodies on top.

I saw on the website that you added mesa-amber-powerpc to the repo. However, I can't seem to get at it even after an apt update and upgrade. Any insight into what I'm doing incorrectly? Many thanks for all you do!
 
I didn’t add it to the MintPPC64 repo as in G5, there is no need for mesa-amber as mesa mainline supports r300 graphics cards.
 
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I didn’t add it to the MintPPC64 repo as in G5, there is no need for mesa-amber as mesa mainline supports r300 graphics cards.
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Hmm, I’m having issues with acceleration on my GeForce 6600 and hoped amber would be the fix it needed. Have you heard anything about the usefulness of that card? Fienix did work with it but I think it’s unmaintained so I don’t want to stick with something with no packages 😂
 
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Hmm, I’m having issues with acceleration on my GeForce 6600 and hoped amber would be the fix it needed. Have you heard anything about the usefulness of that card? Fienix did work with it but I think it’s unmaintained so I don’t want to stick with something with no packages 😂
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Hey Smithwick’s,

That card is 6th generation of Nvidia’s Geforce line of GPUs (codename NV40), supported by the nouveau driver nv30. The latter driver is supported by mainline mesa. You have to keep in mind that hardware acceleration for these cards stopped working after mesa 24.1.6. I have a page on my website dedicated to downgrading mesa to that version and to keep it there. It will allow you get OpenGL working again.

The script I provide only works in MintPPC by the way, not in plain Debian.

 
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Hey Smithwick’s,

That card is 6th generation of Nvidia’s Geforce line of GPUs (codename NV40), supported by the nouveau driver nv30. The latter driver is supported by mainline mesa. You have to keep in mind that hardware acceleration for these cards stopped working after mesa 24.1.6. I have a page on my website dedicated to downgrading mesa to that version and to keep it there. It will allow you get OpenGL working again.

The script I provide only works in MintPPC by the way, not in plain Debian.

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Works like a charm! Thanks so much.
 
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